Live from the Nebulizer: Annie Lanzillotto and Eviction Survival

• Main Author: Hillary Miller
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cultural Studies Association 2015-05-01
• Series: Lateral
• Subjects: eviction; housing rights
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.25158/L4.1.2

Hillary Miller takes up theories of the city, illness, and precarity via a variety of performances by New Yorker Annie Lanzillotto. Miller argues that as she struggles with survival and eviction in the city, Lanzillotto reveals the bodily and economic limits of the precarious artist while protesting the inequities of the neoliberal city. Through this unique and eloquent study, Miller exposes how neoliberalism acutely and chronically structures the contemporary city’s spaces, socialities, and bodies, and explores performance’s potential and complicity in the face of those structures.